Originally from Clearwater Fla., Melody Postma graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in illustration in 1988. She continues to live and work in Georgia, showing her work in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Denver and Naples Fl.
Artist Statement:
I have always been fascinated with old photographs, so candid in our attempt to document the everyday and how easily these images can become icons. My work is a multi-layered evolution of vivid color, textural shapes and long forgotten photographic images of nonchalant figures. While identity remains anonymous, a sensitivity to time and space takes over. As i paint in the round , i offer no beginnings or ends, simply taking the viewer on a journey by offering snapshots of information buried along the way. Each layer being a moment, a new thought, sometimes revealing what came before and at other times, hidden as the momentum continues.
As i get lost in my studio once more….. in a crunch to finish work for two up coming shows….i find i love to go back and look at work i’ve done in the past….and enjoy it anew….”More like, a force to be reckoned with!” 2008
If you are familiar with my work, then you know how i love old photos….i would spend hours as a kid going through and looking at my mom’s old photographs…now i spend hours in my studio tweaking old family photo’s….and today was one of those days.
Most of the photos i use in my work are...
…. wondering what story the viewer see’s, well thats the truly fun part….these two large paintings were, and still remain, a couple of my favorites and i was so pleased when a collector saw they were meant to be together….and so together they remain….
….sometimes she seems as elusive as memories of a childhood Saturday morning….but when she is there with you, its like when a flood of memories hit you at the whiff of a familiar smell….you work feverishly trying to collect it all….